Success for new master's

Ethnic and Migration Studies at REMESO is the Faculty of Arts and Science’s first international master’s programme in Norrköping. When the application period started no less than 360 persons showed an interest in the 20 places. Now, the programme has 28 registered students from around the world. "We have a global and critical perspective that attracts today's students," says initiator Stefan Jonsson.

Cloudy skies on Costa del Sol

Homelessness, ill health and the fear of dying in a foreign country. These are elements in some of the narratives collected by researcher Anna Gavanas in her book about Swedish pensioners who have emigrated to Spain. The book belies the one-sided image of Swedes in Spain as jolly golfers, and describes them as actors in a topical debate about migration and integration.

Workshop: Positive deviance: A new paradigm for social and organisational change? Speaker Arvind Singhal (University of Texas at El Paso) will discuss the Positive Deviance (PD) approach to social change as an innovative method that enables communities and organisations to discover the health wisdom they already have and to act on it.